An Anthology

In this book, Paula R. Feldman introduces modern readers to the range and diversity of women's poetic expression, making available more texts by more women poets of the Romantic era than had ever before been collected in a single book.

The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850

This volume is the first in modern times to collect the sonnets of the Romantic period—many never before published or reprinted—and contains nearly five hundred examples composed between 1750 and 1850 by 81 poets, nearly half of them by women.

The book shows us that far from disappearing with Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet underwent a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period, giving us a rich body of work that continues to influence poets even today.

A scholarly, critical edition of a central work in Shelley scholarship. Supplementing the text are extensive annotations, a chronology, a thorough index, maps of the Shelleys' travels, portraits of acquaintances, appendices giving biographical accounts of the members of Mary Shelley's social circles in Pisa and London, the Shelleys' reading lists, and a bibliography.

By Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), one of the most influential and widely-read poets of the nineteenth century, wrote Records of Woman in 1828 at the height of her long career.

In her introduction and historical annotations, Paula Feldman examines how Hemans's poetry shaped and was shaped by nineteenth-century literary tastes, and she reconsiders the aesthetic value of Hemans's work and the current understanding of the nature of Romanticism.

This volume provides a variety of critical and historical perspectives on a remarkable body of imaginative work by British women writing during the era traditionally called Romantic.

The whole of The Keepsake for 1829 is reproduced in facsimile, so readers can experience it as it was first published, with the text adorned by the original illustrations. An in-depth introduction contextualizes the volume for modern readers.